So we are trying to hire someone and we’re trying to get a california state employer identification number because we need it to pay our unemployment taxes and work with ADP for payroll. the state says we need to hire someone and pay them first before we can get the number, and ADP says we need the number before we can hire.

I’m super frustrated because we litterally would have hired by now if it weren’t for the stupid state bureaucracy. Our state wants to be a utopian socialist state. that takes money, but they make it as hard and expensive as possible to hire and run a business.